Grades: Measures of ability or disability?

Here is a video by a parent that I think all parents should watch. I'm sure you will hear many things that you might have questioned in our education system.

Is it fair that our kids, especially those with special needs, are measured on the same yardstick of 'grades' and 'percentages' in academic subjects, when their abilities and creativity shines in other areas?

  

Albert Einstein said it best. "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." (Albert Einstein 1879-1955)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GIS3Yc1uTM&feature=player_embedded